Parma Ham's gone mouldy

Agreed. Thoroughly professional, in the unpleasant time-wasty, strangling, suck-the-life out-of-the-occasion mid-table Premier League way of doing things. I thought we were in total control and I wasn’t remotely concerned at any point. It was clearly identified that they are not a naturally attacking side, so we held the ball neutrally and encouraged them on to us. Which they weren’t really comfortable doing. Then we counter-attacked sharply, without ever over-committing. They had to win, we didn’t. We backed our superior quality to maybe create and score something. Late perfect. Also agreed Rowe noticeably changed the feel and momentum in both directions. The feel in his teammates and the feel in the oppositions. A compliment to him. Agreed. Full credit to Wagner. Many a coach’s absolute dream performance. Parma

Great to see long time supporters and friends all over the thread this week, including the pickers. This is how you create a community, a common purpose, a shared sense of meaning. This is the kind of person you need to do it. Selflessly. Willingly. Happily. So much for us all to learn here. Thank you @nutty nigel. I love Barcelona women. Just superb to watch. Real quality. They’ll win this week. As for the Norwich bet, suspect scrappy and tight will be the Preston intention. However I think Nutty’s positive spirit might see Norwich win handsomely. Quite possibly to nil with plenty of goals scored by us. Thank you again buddy. What a good thing you’ve done. 🦮

Could there be a better winner? I vote for Eddie precisely because he would decline it. A wonderful, selfless human. Parma

Sixth. Beat Ipswich. Then it’s a toss up on a big day at Wembley 💪🏼💪🏼🙌🙌💫 Parma

How can I still be laughing so hard at this, enjoying it so much and genuinely shaking my shoulders at the sound of it after all these years?…😍😍🥰🤩🤩💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼😂😂😂 Parma

In bocca al lupo 🦮 Inchy ed ai tutti i voi belli PUPetti 🦮🙏🏼🙌🥰….saluti dall’Italia …best wishes from Italy and good luck 🤞 👍 Bonding with France for: Paris Saint Germain vs Clermont Foot - Home win 🏡 🏆 As for the Norwich game, best wishes to Sid and: BTTS, less than 3.5 goals, more than 5 yellow cards, more than 8 corners Parma

Wonderful 🦮🙌💫🤩🥰 Parma

Early payout think you’ll find…all good!…🦮👍🙌🙌 Parma

Bravissimo piccolo uccello giallo 🙌🙌 Parma

Superb goals 🤩🤩 Parma

In bocca al lupo 🦮…LYB …ed ai tutti I voi belli PUPetti 🦮💫… …think it’s more than time for a trip to la bell’Italia 🇮🇹 for: Bologna vs Salernitana - Home win 🏡 🏆 Parma

Norwich pick for Friday’s game for @Hammond1612: Norwich to win, BTTS, more than 2.5 goals, less than 5 yellow cards, more than 5 corners. Oh and I quite like Van Hooindonk to score last goal 🤗💫🦮🥳 Parma

Stuart Webber: “If I’m going to go back into football, it needs to be a club where if they’re not in the Premier League already, and you’ve got to get there, I’ve got the resources to help stay there. I don’t want to go through what I’ve been through twice here, which is the first Premier League season we spent £750,000 on Sam Byram, then after relegation we had to sell (Ben) Godfrey and (Jamal) Lewis due to the impact of Covid. “Then we go back up and have to sell (Emi) Buendia to try and add to the squad. It is so hard and you get no thanks at the end. “Burnley look like they will get relegated, same as us, and they have spent maybe £100m. I’d say give me a scenario where I had £100m and didn’t have to sell our best player, which was Buendia, and I wouldn’t say we would have stayed up, because the level of the Premier League is outrageous, but we would have given it a good shot.” So anyone left that was in any doubt now knows that our model, our circumstances and our own decision-making chose to sell Buendia. And that it was undesirable, imperfect, destructive and an act of sporting self-harm due to our financial constraints and absolutely nothing to do with any behaviour - good, bad or indifferent - by Buendia. The Shakespearean fulcrum indeed. And there the action pivoted. In so many senses. Parma @Monty13

In bocca al lupo 🦮 @nutty nigel…what a wonderful ambassador for the PUPs, a good man and a fine friend 🤗….….thank you so much for all you do and all you have done. £29,000 plus…amazing 🥂🥂💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼…what a proud, proud achievement 🦮🦮💫💫💫🙌🙌🙌…. Not sure I’ve got anything very original or insightful this International week, so I’ll bond with @Hammond1612 for: Argentina vs El Salvador - Home win 🏡 🏆 As for the ever-helpful @KiwiScot…I also really like @PurpleCanary’s selection of: Man City W vs Man Utd W .…. I suspect City will score several more than Utd, though Utd always have goals in them across the side 👍 Parma

Just further to this @ricardo from your AGM thread. Attanasio’s primary source of wealth and access to possible further funding comes from Crescent Capital Group. It probably hasn’t escaped the attentions of @PurpleCanary @shefcanary @essex canary and others that Crescent Capital Group typically focuses its operations on the less traditional, higher-risk, higher yielding forms of alternative investments. To simplify they go into companies and places that more traditional scale lenders would not touch, investments or funding that these traditional lenders may wish to exit, or areas of finance excluding stocks, bonds and cash. There are areas of operation including distressed securities -lending from other institutions that they-are consider(ed) distressed and-or at risk of bankruptcy. Or lending where collateral may be weak or even unsecured financial products (‘lending on belief’). That Attanasio used the term ‘win…winning …winner’ several times in his short AGM speech might well be indicative. His business approach seems to rather vault over ‘prudence with ambition’ or ‘self-sustainability’ into a wilder jungle whereby forensic homework, granular market knowledge and a huge belief in the superior skills, knowledge and judgment of yourself and your team over the market is used to drive decision-making. His jovial appearance, accommodating nature and laid-back approach is no doubt genuine. Though his business acts and operates at the high risk sharp end. His skills are hiding in plain sight. Your statement is - I think - prescient. And not far into the future either. Now is the time to exercise that corporate leverage. Parma Forgive me for re-quoting the original opening post again above - after all this time - following @Bobzilla’s view. ‘You wait 20 years for another Delia, then none come along all at once’ Parma

Now we’re getting somewhere…well done @GMF 👍 ’Lads, got a nice touch on a lowball punt in soccer’ ’A straggler’ ’i love a pump n’ dump’ ’Who’s in?’ ’Yeah…let’s Newco in Delaware it’ ’high upside or flip it to an SSG’ ’Pre-pack it on the down’ Parma

Assuming the advisors have had the information made available to them. Or indeed that further entities - with greater interest or lesser opacity - are not part of the 17%. Parma

I find myself a little confused by this. I confess to having a positive bias towards Forest, who I have always admired as a club. A coach from there was part of my football journey (and is now a senior FA coach educator for quite a few Premier League teams). What Forest did might well be argued to be the only realistic way to break into the premier League - and out of the basement trapdoor and gulf between newly-promoted and functional at Premier Level. I of course fully understand what is called ‘financial doping’ in Europe - when teams use ‘unsustainable’ capitalist, artificial, state or gambled wealth - to outspend all rivals, and-or to gamble ‘tomorrow money’ on football. However how exactly does one create a plausible strategy to stay up in the premier league with its wide disparity of resources and natural financial weight bias to present incumbents vs the newly-appointed? 1. Burnley this season, Norwich previously have tried Man City lite. 2. Sheff Utd, Luton, Burnley previously and others have tried physical spoiling and ****housery. 3. Brentford have gone all-in on data, set pieces, limited weapons and algorithmic calculations. 4. Forest, Fulham, Wolves previously - and to a lesser or greater degree several others in hybrid format - have simply thrown money at it year one and really replaced whole teams as fast as possible. Now my question is this: If there is financial imbalance and teams can massively outspend others through sheer size and commercial operations, how does restricting how Forest can compete year 1 address this? Doesn’t it simply lead to existing large teams remaining large and dominant and making it near impossible to compete without doing what Forest did? Thus is it really balancing competition or simply entrenching the status quo? Is entrenching the status quo true competition then? Parma

During my coaching career the number bandied about at Norwich was 17. Namely that one in 17 - who signed first year professional forms - would make a full career as a professional. Imagine the odds prior to that stage… Parma

With youngsters I like ‘constructive bunching’ 🤣 Parma

In bocca al lupo 🦮 MMMK …ed ai tutti I voi belli PUPetti 🦮🤗 …Quite a few interesting Women’s games this week, all of them look like positive choices: Man Utd W , Bayern W, though strongest looks: Barca W vs Tenerife W - Home win 🏡 🏆 As for MM’s Norwich bet, can see quite an attritional game, though suspect we might just edge it. Perhaps a coach’s dream? BTTS no, Norwich to win, less than 2.5 goals, less than 10 corners, less than 5 yellows cards. Parma 🦮🏆🥳💪🏼⛳️🏡🌎🦒🐆🐈

Surely just to keep his name in the papers…surely? Parma

From Paddy: ‘The Milwaukee Brewers principal owner reiterated in a recent interview for his domestic baseball audience there is a potentially ‘lucrative’ end game for his involvement in the ‘soccer’ club.’ Surely not one message for one audience and a different one for another? …but what about family and food and incredible similarities between Milwaukee and Norwich and Mike and love for the game? Parma

@nutty nigel once - quite reasonably - asked: ’why would an American Baseball fan buy a championship club in Norwich?’ To paraphrase our friend Shilan here: ’everyone knows the value and potential value of American sports franchises…over here in the uk you find odd anachronistic ownerships and structures…they are not really aware of the strong market in multi-sport franchises that even hedge funds are moving into. It’s a pretty good time to buy, especially as a cheap punt and part of a wider portfolio’ Parma

The American Shilan Patel just bought West Bromwich Albion. He said: "You look at something like the NFL, Major League Baseball or the NHL, the valuations are quite uniform... and in some cases eye-wateringly high too. "If you find the right club in the right circumstance, the opportunity to alter the standings and the trajectory of a club is much greater in football than in the American leagues." Parma